Product Description: The five books in the Password series help students advance their reading skills and build a vocabulary of 2,000 high-frequency words and phrases. Research shows that at this point, most students can begin to read unadapted texts...read more

Product Description: The five books in the Password series help students advance their reading skills and build a vocabulary of 2,000 high-frequency words and phrases. Research shows that at this point, most students can begin to read unadapted texts...read more

Product Description: Would you like to know: how to live to be 100? what economists say about our decision-making? where appropriate technologies are changing people's lives? New Password 4: A Reading and Vocabulary Text is the fourth book in the newly expanded Password series...read more

Product Description: Would you like to know: how to live to be 100? what economists say about our decision-making? where appropriate technologies are changing people's lives? New Password 4: A Reading and Vocabulary Text is the fourth book in the newly expanded Password series...read more

Would you like to know:when and why we laugh?how food can affect your brain?what it's like to fight a forest fire?New Password 3: A Reading and Vocabulary Text is the third book in the newly expanded five-book series. It helps intermediate students develop reading skills and increase their active vocabulary through engaging readings about real people, places, events, and ideas. Students benefit from a systematic, corpus-informed approach to learning more than 300 high-frequency words, expressions, and collocations.Features Useful, high-frequency vocabulary selected through extensive corpus-based researchCareful recycling of vocabulary in readings and exercisesActivities that highlight collocations and word grammarDiscussion and writing activities that reinforce learningUnit wrap-ups that help students review vocabulary and practice dictionary skillsVocabulary self-tests that help students assess their progressThe Student Book comes with an Audio CD-ROM containing the entire Student Book audio program in MP3 format.There is also an edition of the Student Book without the Audio CD-ROM; click on the Resources link on the left side of this page.The New Password series also includes:New Password 1 New Password 2 New Password 4 New Password 5

Product Description: Would you like to know:what it's like in Antarctica, the Galapagos, and on Mount Fuji?how your body works?the ways people celebrate around the world?New Password 2: A Reading and Vocabulary Text is the second book in the newly expanded five-book series...read more

Product Description: Would you like to know:how to make movies?if you could be a food critic?what it’s like to be a mystery shopper?New Password 1: A Reading and Vocabulary Text is a new addition to the Password series. It helps beginning students develop reading skills and increase their active vocabulary through engaging readings about real people, places, events, and ideas...read more

A stunning compendium of photographs and travel commentary from eight trips to China's Yangtze River captures the people, environment, and landscape of the Yangtze before, during, and after the Three Gorges Dam opened in June 2003.

Product Description: The Grammar Links series uses a communicative, theme-based approach to help students link grammar to the real world. Students benefit from comprehensive grammar coverage, a strong emphasis on formal versus informal language, and an abundance of contextualized, four-skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) practice exercises and activities...read more

Product Description: The Password series uses readings about real people, places, and events to help students develop reading skills and increase their active vocabulary. Each book's six theme-based units ' including such universal topics as work, travel, and celebration ' feature appealing passages, carefully chosen vocabulary, and a variety of exercises to engage and motivate readers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Grammar Links series uses a communicative, theme-based approach to help students link grammar to the real world. Students benefit from comprehensive grammar coverage, a strong emphasis on formal versus informal language, and an abundance of contextualized, four-skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening) practice exercises and activities...read more

Product Description: With an emphasis on systematic vocabulary acquisition, this series includes engaging readings about real people, places, events, and ideas. Students are able to develop the reading skills essential for a solid reading foundation. The series uses carefully controlled sentence structure and targets the high-frequency vocabulary that will get students from the 600- to the 2,000-word level...read more

Product Description: Appropriate for low beginning level ESL courses, the first volume in the theme-based Grammar Links series offers a communicative approach with a traditional focus on form. The text offers clear, accurate, and comprehensive grammar reference material, useful to students throughout life; a strong emphasis on the pragmatics of formal versus informal language; and ample contexualized, four-skills practice...read more

Product Description: Helps students develop communication skills using the themes in Connect with English video episodes as a springboard for discussion. This title also includes practice in reading, writing, and vocabulary development. It contains a variety of pair, group, and whole-class activities based on issues and ideas from the corresponding video episodes...read more

Product Description: This beautifully printed collection captures the timeless spirit of Italy with haunting images of its architecture, antique objects, and evocative landscapes. Linda Butler strayed from the standard tourist path to create these subtly toned black-and-white photographs, each one a quiet meditation on Italy's past...read more

Product Description: The "Connect with English Home Viewers Guides", while not primarily designed for the classroom market, can be used by programs that want an extremely brief, low-level comprehension guide to the entire 48 episode series. There is the added advantage of having an all English or 4 bilingual versions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)